Joe Biden's five major problems as Israel conflict escalates

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : "He JUST handed $6 BILLION to Iran.
51% : U.S. Unfreezes Iranian fundsThe escalation comes shortly after the Biden administration agreed to allow the transfer of $6 billion of frozen Iranian funds from South Korea to Qatar as part of a prisoner-swap deal to free several Americans detained in Iran, completed last month.
51% : "This is what happens when @POTUS [U.S. President Joe Biden] projects weakness on the world stage, kowtows to the mullahs in Iran with a $6 Billion ransom, and leaders in the Republican Party signal American retreat as Leader of the Free World," said Mike Pence, Trump's former vice president and now competitor for next year's presidential elections.
48% : But Iran's Foreign Ministry clapped back at these restrictions, saying the "competent authorities" in Tehran would determine how the funds are used.
42% : Tehran would only be able to use them to "buy food, medicine, medical equipment that would not have a dual military use," White House spokesperson John Kirby said, according to Reuters.
42% : "The impact on the oil price will be limited unless we see the 'war' between the two sides expand quickly to a regional war where the U.S. and Iran and other supporters of the parties get directly involved," Iman Nasseri, Middle East managing director of energy consultancy Facts Global Energy, also told the publication.
16% : ""Iran has helped fund this war against Israel and Joe Biden's policies that have gone easy on Iran have helped fill their coffers," Florida Governor and GOP presidential contender Ron DeSantis wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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